Easily manage a mirror of your dotfiles with git.

##Introduction

###Setup:

$ mkdir ~/dotfiles
$ git clone https://github.com/dbb/dotgit.git
$ vim dotgit/dotgit
    # set $git_dir to "~/dotgit"
$ ln -s ~/dotgit/dotgit ~/bin/dotgit

###First use:

$ dotgit up .Xdefaults .vimrc .zsh

This is functionally equivalent to:

$ cp ~/.Xdefaults ~/dotfiles
$ cp ~/.vimrc ~/dotfiles
$ cp ~/.zshrc ~/dotfiles

$ cd ~/dotfiles
$ git add .Xdefaults .vimrc .zsh
$ git commit -m 'Update: .Xdefaults .vimrc .zsh'
$ git push -u origin master

So as you can see, in the long run it can save you quite a bit of typing. Also, it lets you avoid the sloppiness in making your whole home folder an active git repository.

Note: actually, the program will not do any of this in the event that the diff of the local file and the one in the git repo is null.

###Updating local files:

$ dotgit down .Xdefaults .vimrc .zshrc

This is functionally equivalent to:

$ cd ~/dotfiles
$ git pull
$ cp .Xdefaults ~
$ cp .vimrc ~
$ cp .zshrc ~

##TODO

• add "update all" function
• add support for loading specific file sets from a config file

##Requirements

• git
• Perl version 5.10 or newer